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BELLEVUE, WA â€“ The historic 255-67 vote by the House of Representatives to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to provide documents relating to the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious was â€œnecessary for justice to be served,â€ the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

Holder repeatedly did not comply with a subpoena issued last October by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Instead, he successfully appealed to President Barack Obama to claim executive privilege at the last minute in an attempt to shield the documents from Congressional review.

â€œAs the highest ranking law enforcement officer in the nation, the attorney general is not above the law,â€ CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb declared. â€œIt should not have come to this. Eric Holder should have complied with the subpoena. If he had cooperated fully with the Fast and Furious investigation from the outset, none of this would have been necessary and he knows it.

â€œThe only conceivable reason that Holder and the Obama administration do not want to turn these documents over,â€ he said, â€œis that they contain damning evidence of either incompetence or complicity, or both.

â€œWe are disappointed, but not surprised,â€ Gottlieb continued, â€œthat Holderâ€™s Democrat cheerleaders tried to portray this as a witch hunt, and tried to blame the Bush administration, but their arguments do not wash. This is about the rule of law and finding the truth about a horribly mis-managed gun trafficking operation, the murder of an American Border Patrol agent and what appears to have been a cover-up by the Department of Justice.â€

CCRKBA had urged gun owners to contact their congressional representatives in support of the contempt vote.

â€œWe are proud,â€ Gottlieb noted, â€œof the 17 Democrats who joined the Republican majority on this vote. This was not about partisanship, but accountability and transparency. Fast and Furious has a body count, and so long as people provide cover to the attorney general, the blood is on their hands.â€

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is
dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots
organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. The Citizens Committee can be
reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the Internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email
to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org.